Sunday, March 9, 2014

Success stories of famous people who achieved success from repeated failures





1.  SUCCESS STORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We all know who Abraham Lincoln is?. He was the president of USA. Lot of failures for him before getting the president ship.
At 21 years of age, he failed in the business.
At 22 year of age, he was defeated in the election for assembly.
At 24 years of age he again tasted failure in the business.
At 26 years of age, his lover passes away.
At 27 years of age, he was in deep mental agony.
At 34 years of age, he was defeated in the American congress election.
At 45 years of age, he was defeated in the senate election.
At 47 years of age, he was defeated in the election for vice-president.
At 49 years of age, he was again defeated in the senate election.
AT 52 YEARS OF AGE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WON THE ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.
Normally one would have fed up with the defeat and live with what he has. But Lincoln have fought all the defeats and found the success in the end.

2. SUCCESS STORY OF THOMAS ALVAEDISON
Once a student named Tomy returned home from school crying loud. On seeing this his mother asked him what had happened. He showed her a letter from his class teacher. His classteacher complained that Tomy is not clever, brilliant and smart enough to continue in the school. He is a laggard and the teacher
wants the Tomy's mother to transfer Tomy from the school. This Tomy later become the great scientist THOMA ALVA EDISON. Thomas Alva Edison had only 3 month education in the school. Thomas Elva Edison failed around thousand  times in the discovery of Electric bulb.



3. SUCCESS STORY OF DHIRUBHAI AMBANI

Dhirubhai Ambani started his entrepreneurial career by selling "bhajias" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends during his early days. After doing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant, and as a dispatch clerk with A.Besse & Co. After becoming the distributor for the Shell products,A.Besse & Co promoted Dhirubhai to manage the company`s oil filling station at the port of Aden. But he returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and started the Reliance Commercial Corporation with a capital of Rs 15,000. From modest Rs.50,000 his empire now worth around 10 lakhs crores. What more he does not attend the school. If one has the patience and self-confidence and dedication for the aim in his life, one can taste success. Success will always follow the hard work. Clouds cannot always keep the sun in darkness.

4. SUCCESS STORY OF WILMA RUDOLF
The women who got 3 gold medals in Athletics in 1960 Olympics. Behind this fantastic achievement there is astory to tell. True encouragement for those guys who are desperate for success. For those people who think that they have disabilities and shortcomings and can't succeed like other winners, please read it .
Wilma Rudolf got Pneumonia and stroke at the age of 4. She has to wear Brace as per medical advice. Everyone believed she could not walk all through life. But her mother was not among them. She believed in hard work and dedication and confidence. She encouraged Wilma to expect good and feel good and work for the best. Her mother was confident that with practice and hard work coupled with divine touch Wilma can walk again. The aim of Wilma was to become the fastest women in the world.

From the age of 9, she began to walk despite the advice of doctors not to do so. Then from 13 th year onward she began to take part in the races. But in all races she could only manage last places. At the age of 15 she began training under Ed temple ,the trainer at Tennissi state University. Wilma worked hard under the trainer and her confidence was high. Her greatest weapon was hard work and confidence in her. At 1960 Olympics her opponent in 100m race was Jatta Hayden who was never defeated. Wilma defeated her and won gold medal. In 200 m race also Wilma defeated Hayden and won gold medal. In 400 m relay baton fallen from Wilma ,but she took it back and won the race.
In my belief not all have disabilities and short comings like Wilma had. But we believe we are short of some thing. We are not like winners. We lack something that winners have. It is the inner self that decide winner and looser. Every one can become a winner provided one put the hard work and dedication in the work.





5. SUCCESS STORY OF WARREN BUFFET

When he was a  boy, he delivered newspapers and filed his first tax return at age 13 – and he claimed $35 deduction for the bicycle he bought. Now he is the second richest person in the world.
The themes behind all the stories are that these leaders dream big. Really big.







6. SUCCESS STORY OF LARRY PAGE AND SERGEY BRIN

No need of introduction. In 1998 Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Men-lo park and Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee. Rest is history. They too failed first. They approached Yahoo in their earlier years for selling the idea. But the reply was NO. Then what happened. Now Google is bigger than Yahoo.
Nowadays people tend to give more focus on failures. They easily come to the conclusion that they are not capable of doing it. Anyone who believes he can do it, can do it hundreds of times if he try it for 99 times. There is no short cut to success. We can achieve success only by sheer hard work and practice. Without these things success will always elude you. All success people have short comings. All failed people too have short comings. The difference is that success people try hard to impair their shortcomings but failed one repent and live and die along with their shortcomings.


7.SUCCESS STORY OF NATALIE DU TOIT.


She lost her left leg in an accident in 2001. She become the first leg amputee to take part in  the Paralympics and Olympics. Above mentioned stories always encourages desperate guys. Almost all human beings failed in their life many times. Almost every one. There is a story behind every success. The path to success is difficult. It is only the first that is always talked more. Neel Armstrong is more famous than Edwin Adrin. People will remember success for more time. They will remember the guy who come the first. Not the second. 2008 Olympics in 10k open water race she finished creditable 16 th out of 24 racers. Just over one minute behind the winner. The event is termed as Wrestling in water. That shows the stamina NATALIE DU TOIT has. If she live the life after the accident just like the most do then we may not have heard her name. She done it with her courage and hard work and determination.

Once Carl Marx said ' change is the only thing that does not change'. Change your life for good. Things will follow. There is no short cut to success. When you do the half the god will you the another half. There is no point in saying god is not favoring me. I have no luck. Luck will only favor the brave. Those who have Never say die attitude will succeed in life. Waiting for the god to give every thing in life is rubbish. God give the half only to those who are hard working and dedicate.  "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"'. These are the words of Winston Churchill. There is no easy success. Failures are the stepping stone of success. This great man had failed in the 6 th grade. Can you believe.

8. SUCCESS STORY OF MARILYN MONROE
One Producer told her she was "unattractive" and could not act. If she heard that words and obeyed according to it, then what will be her life. She tried hard and achieved success.



9. SUCCESS STORY OF ADOLF HITLER
Adolf Hitler comes from peasant family. He worked as a construction worker. He was fired by the boss from his job. He does not own a home in his early years. He lives in abject poverty. He was not admitted into the art school. He was rejected by the Austrian Army for the reason that he is unfit. Even if he got into German army, he never rose above the rank of corporal.





10. SUCCESS STORY OF SACHIN TENDULKAR

The great Sachin that we all know had never attended college. During his early periods he was trying to become a fast bowler and started training to become a pace bowler. But the great Dennis Lille was not impressed with him and ask him to focus in his batting. Rest is history. For 79 one dayers he could not score a century. In the 80 th One day he got it and then the centuries are flowing now. It is not stopped yet. He is the most successful Indian sports men. He has the most fans in the world. He is the most respected individual in India. Still he is booed off by the home ground, at Wankade stadium, Mumbai. for his lack of in the India-England series. He was suffering from lot of injuries and all doubted his good days are over. His critics gained more voice and all expect Sachin to say good bye to the sport. 2000-2007 was the most worrisome for the Great. Even the then coach Chappel wants 
him to resign from the team.

Clouds can't keep the sun under it for long. Then through hard work and dedication Sachin got back into form and created new records in Cricket like, Most centuries in cricket both in test and odi's , 2oo in Odi, Most runs in tests and Odi. Now no one dare to touch him. He is the only one to decide his date of retirement. The career of Sachin should taught us the way how one should approach life. His life combined with ups and downs. The hard work he put into his work truly admirable. Dedication, self confidence, ability to stay grounded amidst much fanfare, belief in his abilities, punctuality keep him the most admired and successful personalities in the world.

11. SUCCESS STORY OF HIROTODA

This is a man who has no hands, no legs. What is the importance of Hirotoda?. What you can expect from this man. Normally what these handicapped people will do. You can imagine. But Hirotoda learn to write using his chin and shoulders. He has completed education. What more?. He has written an autobiography named 'GOTAI FUMANZOKU'. This book sold in more numbers than any other book in Japan. He has completed teaching education and he started to work as a teacher. If Hirotoda can achieve all these without any hands or legs, then think about you who have been bestowed with all organs and abilities.


12. SUCCESS STORY OF J.K.ROWLING

There was girl named Joe. She lived in a flat having only one room. She is having a girl child to whom one room is not enough to play. Joe is very fond of writing. But the child won't let her to write. So she takes her to coffee shop and she wrote stories at the coffee shop. Joe and her daughter spend the time like this. She doesn't get a any help from her husband. He had left her long back. Joe was struggling to meet both ends met. Still she worked hard to write as much as she can in the coffee shop. With all the hard work her first book was published and the name of the book is ' Harry potter and philosopher stone '. She got 1500 pound for her
first book. Now that Joe is popularly called J.K.Rowling. She is more richer than Queen Elizabeth. Now her earning comes to around 54.5crores pounds . How come that possible for a lady living alone without any help?.  It is due to her preservance and hard work. She stick to her abilities. God gave the rest. My advice for the desperate guys is, not to prey to the God for money and wealth. You have some abilities. Try to use those abilities in you. Make your abilities work for you. God will give you the rest.


13. SUCCESS STORY OF STEVE JOBS
Steve Jobs need no introduction to anybody in the world. But you know he had slept in the floor of friend's door rooms. He returned coke bottles for money. Steve jobs while in India, regularly got weekly free meals from local temple. A below par student as per the
teachers of his school. But how he made Billions. Sheer hard work and confidence in his abilities. Perseverance and sticking to his strengths and proving that he means business. Rest is history.




14) SUCCESS STORY OF WALT DISNEY

A great success story.... Walt Disney dropped out from school at the age of 16. First he worked as cartoonist. Rejected from the army due to under age, He worked as a news paper artist. Nobody wanted to hire him as artist. Then he moved to a new job of making ads for news papers which was a temporary job. Then along with his brother he acquired Laugh-O-Gram which went into bankruptcy and he was unable to pay his debts. But he never losses heart. He continued working hard and explored newer ways of making successes and rest is history.

15) SUCCESS STORY OF INFOSYS
Everyone in the world now knows about Infosys. But how many knows how the company come into existence. N.R.Narayana murthy who is the founder of the company had borrowed $250 from his wife, Sudha Murthy for starting the company. Mr. Murthy had a dream. But no money. But he has the courage and knowledge and dedication. Early days the company had no phone, no car, no independent office. The company was on the brink of collapse during the early years. Still they managed to keep it afloat. His conviction about his skills and will power make things happen. Now Infosys is a fortune 500 company and India's second largest software company. Any one invested in 100 shares of Infosys in 1993 when the share was offered at Rs.93 to public, their wealth now stands at more than 2 Crores. This is a truly great success story.


16. SUCCESS STORY OF JESSE OWENS

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Jesse Owns, a great hero and great story behind and a great
personality too. His path towards glory and fame is an eye opener for everyone. Everyone who is facing trouble times can look forward to him and after reading these sentences can make them rejuvenated. Jesse Owens was born in 1913 and his childhood, he gone through abject poverty. His teacher in the school found out the talent of Jesse. He worked in the shoe repair shop in the evening and found out time to exercise in the morning. Since being a black, he has to suffer a lot. He was rejected from the good facilities, food, better mode of travel etc... during the early career. No scholarship, no free meal. He had raced with race horses and motor vehicle in order to earn money. He had worked in a gas station for meeting both ends meet. The poverty in his family make him to work even at the age of 7. All through these difficulties, he kept his talent and worked the way to keep justice to the talent. Hard work and dedication and confidence in his abilities reward him in the form of 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His record in the long jump stood for around 25 years. He was awarded with presidential medal of freedom.

17.Great success story of Nirma.

                           
 Nirma is a company in India which enjoys a turnover of more than 700 million and which employs more than 14,000 people.  This company was founded by Karsanbhai Patel.  According to Forbes his net worth near to 1 Billion.  

                             He started his business when the detergent business was mainly controlled by MNC's.  You can imagine how hard to fight with MNCs.  But Karsabbhai Patel did n't think so.  He want to make a point.  For that he beleives in deeds rather than words.  He started making Detergent powder in his backyard.  The he sold the product door to door.  Self confidence and faith in his abilities and hard work make him successful.  Now Nirma become the largest detergent and the company becomes the second largest Soap company in India.  



18.  Great come back and success story of Lance Armstrong.


                            As the name suggest he is strong.  He is strong in his mind as well as in his confidence.  At the age of 25, he became one of the best cyclist of world.  But at the same age, he was tested positive for 3rd stage testicular cancer.  The cancer spread to his lungs, heart, brain, abdomen.  What a tragedy for any one at the age of 25?.  What will you do if you are in his shoes?.  Lance Armstrong set aside his sorrows and began to study about the cancer that he had and after repeated surgeries, he escaped from cancer in testicles and brain,  The doctor give him 40 percent chance of surviving.  But some how his cancer gets into remission.  Then exercised hard and his workouts were legendary for their difficulty and they launched him out of his setbacks.  Then he come back into the sporting world with a fourth place in Spain in 1988.  In 1999 he entered Tour De France and he won it.  It is just 2 years after diagnosing with cancer.  No one in history has won seven straight Tour De France titles and in 2005 he retired from races.  This story has rejuvenated many in the world.  This is one of the greatest comebacks of all time.  Any one who is self obsessed with the minor short comings that they have, can look into the story of Lans and lead them right back into the path of success.

But the performance enhancing drugs do the trick for him.  In 2012 he admitted about taking performance enhancing drugs and he was denied of all the trophies and titles including the Tour de france.  The house hold name of Lance Armstrong fades as a failure or rather a cheater.  All his achievements losses its glitter.  Still the fight back will be treated by everyone as a motivation but not the drug using.  
19. Success Story of Wright Brothers

               Wilber and Orville brothers who invented Aircraft were not come from great back ground.  They fought hard in life to meet
success in life. Wilber didn't receive diploma due to family's abrupt move to Dayton.  Orville dropped out from school.  At the age of 18 Wilber was struck with a Hockey stick in which he lost teeth, after that he began to suffer from nervous palpitation of heart.  This resulted in the stopping of education and subsequent home staying for Wilber.  Then after the death of mother, Orville also stopped education and they started a printing business.  Not great.  Then they changed their business into automobiles.  After 4 year they get into the business of Bicycles.  Then some how, they acquired more knowledge about aeronautics.  First experiment in 1900 failed.  Then in 1901, 2 experimental  flights are also failed.  Then in 1902 they tasted success and rest is history.

20. Success Story of Scoichiro Honda

                              Scoichiro Honda is the founder of Honda Motor corporation.  He hasn't inherited the Honda Corporation from his parents.  He hasn't bought the Honda Corporation from any one else.  He started the company from the scratch.  Scoichiro Honda spend his childhood helping his father who was a bicycle repairer.  His mother was a weaver.  He has no formal education.  At the age of 15 he worked in a garage.  Then with the financial help from a friend, he started a piston ring making company named Tokai Seiki.  His products were rejected by the Toyota, citing bad quality.  He didn't lose heart in the rejection.  He used this rejection to make him more competitive.  He visited various Toyota centers and closely  studied Toyota's quality standards.  It is almost took 2 years to get a contract from Toyota again.  After getting success, the company was taken over by the same Toyota.  The company was destroyed by the US bomb attack during world war 2.  Then Scoichiro Honda sold the remaining of the factory to Toyota and started Honda Technical Research Institute.  Rest is history.  Now you know how big is the Honda Company is.  With such a below standard situations and set backs that Scoichiro Honda come through in his early years, only his determination to find out the success from failures make him a great in his field.  

21.  Success Story of Pele
  
Greatest.......
  
                              The greatest Football player, the world had ever seen.  No comparison.  No football player can claim his spot in the Football history.  His feats are yet to be matched by any other players.  His early life was in abject poverty.  He worked as a servant in tea shops to meet both ends met.  He can't afford a Football.  He can't buy a Football.  He played with either a sock filled with paper balls or a grapefruit.  But talent and hard work can overcome any poverty and hardships if one can apply dedication and focus on what one is capable off. Just like Pele every one can find success if he can follow the great player in every aspects.  

22.  Success Story of Issac Newton

                                                                                           Issac Newton, like everyone knows was a physicist, astronomer,
mathematician
, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and he is considered as the most influential scientist.  But his past is not known to many.  After 3 months of his birth, his father died and his mother remarried.  He was left at the mercy of grant fathers.  He was expelled from the school in his early life.  He was considered a unpromising student in the school.  The he was tried in farming.  But luckily he was not a good farmer.  Then the raw talent was noticed by his uncle who works in Trinity college and he was admitted there.  Rest is history.  






23.  Success story of Oscar Pistorius
     
                          Born 22nd Nov.1986.  Oscar Pistorius, congenital absence of the fibula in his legs  from his birth onward   When he was 11 months old his legs his legs were amputated halfway between his knees and ankles.  He first tried his hands in Rugby, then in water polo, then Tennis.  After a serious rugby knee injury, he began to focus on running.  Then never looked back.  It was very hard to find a suitable running blades.  From different brands to even locally made one, all were failed.  Then Ossur produced one for him. According to Oscar Pistorius, " You are not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have".  Lot of disputes and controversies happen over his artificial legs.  His hard work coupled with confidence let all controversies to dies, and people began to take notice his performances.  He is the only athlete to take part in Paralympics as well as Olympics.  In Paralympics he has won 6 gold medal and one silver and one silver in the world championship.

24.   Success story of Ray Kroc and McDonald

                           "If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them".  -Ray Kroc.  Words from a great man who had a great story to tell.  When Ray Kroc was at 15 years of age,he was about to start as an ambulance driver, but by that time war ended in 1917.  Then his career turns into piano player, paper cup sales man, multi mixer sales man.  One day he got a big order from a restaurant in San Francisco.  When he delivered the mixers, he analysed what is going on in the small restaurant for this much order.  It was run by Dick and Mac McDonald.  The restaurant focused on very few items like burgers, fries and beverages.  Ray Kroc felt that the theme behind the restaurant is good and he has a great opportunity in making it big.  He then succeeded in making this idea big and were able convince the brothers in spreading the business.  In 1955 Ray Kroc started McDonald corporation and bought the exclusive right to the McDonald name in 1960.  Then following the idea of quality with sheer efforts and long vision, he able to build an empire which every one can do it in their dreams.

25. Success story of Dr.Seuss
                                                        Dr.Seuss first book was rejected by 27 different publishers.  But these rejections made him stubborn and increased his will power and he become the most popular children's book author ever.  



        

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